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Hi fellow soapers, Need a little help here... I did a batch of soap using rice water to dissolve the lye... While waiting for the temperature to drop, the lye mixture kind of gel up... Is that normal? I am now thinking if the soap should be done the way like milk soap where you do at super...

This is kind of sad, I ordered a batch of Butters from Butters and Bars in November and these precious still haven't reach me. I am planning to get a new batch. Is there any recommendation for sellers for butters that shipped overseas to Singapore?

:( This is the first time I saw this happening to my soaps in my 4 years of soaping and I have no idea what went wrong. Any suggestion?

Hi Fellow Soapies, I have seen a petition online to challenge the Soap Loaf Trademark. Not too sure where though. Have any other seen it? Will most of you here be affected? It seems to me that the intention is to monopolise the market

I am not really an expert in rebatching. Have tried it on various occassions but for all soaps, I just add in my puree/liquid and leave it in my container and doubleboil till the soap melted. Now I am having an issue with using excess lye in my soap (I saw the wrong measurement). The lye i use...

Just upset that I wasted 46gm of lye today. I was excited in doing my milk soap n I miss my lye measurement. Now I have a lye heavy batch of soap. Although for testing, I only use 175gm of oil. BUT, I am feeling heartache for my lye as it is hard to get lye here. :-(

I have a sweet almond oil that I did not manage to use up and it went bad. There are no oil spots or anything, but the smell tell you that the oil is bad. So can I use the oil to make laudry soap so as not to waste it?

Hi fellow soapers, I believe that alot of you have already tried doing milk soaps and what I am posting here could be something agreeable or non agreeable since we have different school of thoughts here. But still, I would like to share my experience from my milk soap lesson yesterday about...

I am going to do my new batch soon~~~ Happy Gal today..

Its my first attempt on making a body butter. So for experimenting purpose, I made a very small batch. Here goes my ingredient: 15gm shea butter, 15gm cocoa butter, 15gm coconut oil, 2gm jojoba oil, 8gm olive oil, 2.5gm honey and 2.5gm glycerin. on top of that, i added 1 drop of vit E oil, 5...

Is it illegal to dry your laudry in the open in US? I like to dry my laudry in the hot sun as it make me feel that my clothes smell nice and the hot dry clothes feel cleaner why dry in the sun. Heard that in the States, people tends to dry their clothes indoor. Saying that drying laudry in...

Have anybody tried it before? I like the smell of Dragon Blood but cannot really find it. Google online and noted supplies came from Indonesia which is pretty near to me and yet I do not know how to get hold of the supply. i wonder if the smell of the powder will hold in CP soap.

Received an email about the supporting membership, anybody received? Confuse about it and the payments for the membership and address?? LOL

The weather has started to get hot and humid.. i taken 2 showers and wash my hair 2 times yesterday.. I get sticky almost imediately after stepping out of shower.. Horrible weather..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVaK5sm0jmc I am trying for the first time to incorporate sea salt into my soap bar... The formula under soaping 101 mention to use 75% of salt based on total weight of oil. Can I just confirm that 75% is really okay? Will it cause the soap to dry and cracky...

http://www.soapmakingforum.com/f22/might-not-nice-but-i-made-myself-31567/index3.html I got a little hole in the middle of my latest soaps. I won't even know it exist if I didn't happen to cut through it. There is a liquid that flows up (but dry up already). I taste the liquid, it don't zap...

Emo-ing in progress..

Was mixing in 5 drops of neem oil in 1 tsp of aloe gel which i applying on my scalp. But the smell of neem oil is just so.........................

I do not know what is a lotion bar until I join SMF. How does it feels like using a lotion bar? It sounds like something that is going to be real thick and sticky. The way to make it seems similar to doing lip balm (i google it). I always find balm sticky. :roll: I do my own body...

My friend happens to be posted to US this month, so I shipped some lip balm flavors to his hotel and got him to bring it back for me. Not sure if they are good or not, but I think the chocolate don't really smell nice. Not the kind of chocolate smell that I imagined it to be. Need to try it...